Operating Systems Design and Implementation

The book contains: System Software Overview of all system softwares: Operating system I/O manager Assembler Compiler Linker Loader Fundamentals of Operating System OS services and Components Multitasking Multi-programming Time-sharing Buffering Spooling Process and Thread Management Concept of process and threads Process states Process management Context switching Interaction between processes and OS. Multi-threading Concurrency Control Concurrency and Race Conditions Mutual exclusion requirements Software and hardware solutions Semaphores Monitors Classical IPC problems and solutions Deadlock Characterization Detection Recovery Avoidance and Prevention.